Hey look: something that's not mecha! Well, I needed a little break from mecha building, so I thought I'd try something new for me: a mosaic. I wanted it to be simple enough that almost anyone can build it, but still with a bit of photo-realism. This is my first time attempting something like this, so please be kind with any critisisms. Please rate and comment:)

Quoting Soccer Ty
Very cool, and I have a quick question seeing as I've never made a mosaic before. I went to Brickfair with my mother who saw all of the mosaics there and decided that she needed to make one of her own... When making a mosaic, where do you start?

The way I work, I start with a photo and work in black, white, gray, and dark gray, but i guess there are programs like GIMP that has a mosaic program so you can map out your creation before you build it.

Very cool, and I have a quick question seeing as I've never made a mosaic before. I went to Brickfair with my mother who saw all of the mosaics there and decided that she needed to make one of her own... When making a mosaic, where do you start?

I like it

C J

October 7, 2009

this is a nice moc, I added more pictures to my V-wing fighter so could you please check it out?

Quoting Amal Duriseti
You should take photoshop, flip the image, and stick it on the other half so it'd look like a full mosaic. However, as it is, only seeing one half of Han's face adds a little bit of mystery, and something else which I can't describe which really makes this mosaic awesome!

Thanks! I was gonna use Photoshop to make the other half, but the shading on the nose wouldn't look right.

You should take photoshop, flip the image, and stick it on the other half so it'd look like a full mosaic. However, as it is, only seeing one half of Han's face adds a little bit of mystery, and something else which I can't describe which really makes this mosaic awesome!

"Be kind with critism" by but! This is great! A good deal of realism but if you wanted something like Da Vinci larger would be better. I like this though, the cartoony looks better. All MOCs are a kind of art, but this takes it to a new level! =)

I like it

Squirelly .

August 13, 2009

My biggest baseplate is the X-Large grey one LEGO sells! I think I have commented on this before but I will again. This rocks! Could you check out my comics?

Do you think you could judge a MOC-off? Me and Tom R. are having a MOC-off, and we have four judges, but things went haywire and we never figured out who won the first round. All you need to do is judge in your honest opinion which one is better, no scoring chart or anything. Could you do that?

This MOC certainly expresses your artistry, and i must say it expresses it awsomely well, i love the blend and realism and lets not forget the reseblence.
by the way, i finally was able to get ahold of a camera, and took pics of my Dark augusto creation, i will be posting it in the next day or so :)

Quoting Steef de Prouw
This is really interesting and nicely done. I remember a similar system from my childhood called ministeck (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=ministeck&sa=N&tab=wi&um=1). It looks a bit like that.
So now we want to know how you did it. My guess is you grabbed movie still of him, loaded it into a graphics program and either used a mosaic filter or did a grid overlay on it to get a building example. Amirite?

Uh. Nope. I just grabbed a b+w pic of Han and some Legos and started building. No fancy programs, just the naked eye:)

This is really interesting and nicely done. I remember a similar system from my childhood called ministeck (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=ministeck&sa=N&tab=wi&um=1). It looks a bit like that.
So now we want to know how you did it. My guess is you grabbed movie still of him, loaded it into a graphics program and either used a mosaic filter or did a grid overlay on it to get a building example. Amirite?

this is a very rare colour combination on a mosaic I guess, and to think that it is so small, but still it looks like Han...or one half of Han :D awesome work! and hey, guess what...I now need a break from mechs too :D